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Innovation is our concern
I am in the production hall of Metallbau Windeck Ltd., one of the most innovative enterprises, situated in Rietz, a village which is part of our community of Kloster Lehnin.
This enterprise was awarded the “Future Prize” in 2010 for installing a new high rack system and some other innovations. Now I am going to have a look at that high rack.
Our company has existed for more than a hundred years now which would not have been possible without permanent innovation. In 2010 we put our new high rack system into operation.
That principle itself is not new in contrast to the idea to use this system in metalworking industry. The advantages are obvious.
It provides us with bigger storage capacity, and the workpieces are at our disposal in a very short time and in excellent quality.
In our warehouse we used to have a pile of up to 200 cassettes.
Looking for the right workpiece often took us 2 hours if it was to be found in the last cassette.
Nowadays, with our new high rack and its control system, it is possible to find the right workpiece within seconds and to make it available to the production process within minutes.
Here we are in the production hall. A workpiece was requested from the storage about 10 minutes ago.
Now it is here and ready to be worked on by the CNC mechanic.
He knows that his workpiece is flawless, neither scratched nor bent.
Even today the investment has proved profitable.
Thousands of workpieces are perfectly retrievable from 365 storage places within seconds.
Our innovation means a considerable acceleration of preparatory work and of the whole production process.
Mr Windeck’s explanations have impressed me once again.
For decades his company has been able to survive against strong competitors.
It has been particularly involved in several important construction projects in our federal capital Berlin.
That is not without good reason because the enterprise has had the courage and the power to continuously check existing production processes in order to improve them even more.
So I believe the enterprise is on the right way.